TN Democratic Party taps Alan Secrest as next executive director

1:11 PM,
Nov. 5, 2013

Written by

Michael Cass
| The Tennessean

A longtime political operative who had to shut down his polling firm due to money problems last year will be the next executive director of the Tennessee Democratic Party.

Alan Secrest will start work in January, party spokesman Brandon Puttbrese confirmed to The Tennessean before issuing a news release this morning. Secrest announced in June 2012 that he had to close Secrest Strategic Services because "our financial circumstances have left us no choice but to discontinue this work and close our business," The Washington Post's The Fix blog reported.